Homer City Generating Station

Homer City Generating Station is a decommissioned 2-GW coal-burning power station near Homer City, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA. It is owned by hedge funds and private equity firms and had been operated by NRG Energy. Units 1 and 2, rated at 660 MWe, began operation in 1969. Unit 3, rated at 692 MWe nameplate capacity, was launched in 1977. It employed about 124 people. During the 2010s, it underwent two bankruptcies within five years. On April 3, 2023, Homer City Generation announced a decision to shut down the power plant and be offline by June 2, 2023. Demolition of the site included destruction of the chimneys and cooling towers on March 22, 2025. The high stack is currently both the tallest chimney to ever be demolished and also the tallest freestanding structure to ever be voluntarily removed in the World, but will eventually be surpassed once the dismantling of the Inco Superstack is completed in 2029. In April 2025, Homer City Redevelopment announced plans to use existing infrastructure to construct a natural gas plant and data center campus. There have been a number of community-led protests and town hall events over environmental concerns.

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